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	Microsoft touts corporate tools in Windows 8 Enterprise Microsoft laid out the exclusive features of Windows 8 Enterprise, one of three editions of the upcoming OS and the only one limited to corporate customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required. Learn More! In this Issue Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations Workers did not exceed authorization when data stolen, says appeals court Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit Laptops with AMD's 'Trinity' chips coming this quarter Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies AMD reports Q1 loss on GlobalFoundries charge FBI seizes anonymizing server in bomb threat probe Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple, the iPhone, and the future of travel From CIO.com: IBM and HP Take Different Tacks to the New Cloud Apple in talks with iPad trademark challenger to try and settle dispute In Australia, an ISP prevails in long-running copyright dispute Critics Pan Verizon's Proposed Spectrum Sell-off Sony to launch 5GB online photo sharing service next week WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy From the desktop to digital music, search to mobile devices, these Big Three have shaped our digital lives for more than a decade. Who's winning now? Here's how the battle shakes out. Read More Microsoft Q3 revenue grows almost across the board, beats Wall Street expectations Microsoft revenue grew across most of its businesses in the third quarter, with the exception of its entertainment division, but profit fell slightly, the company said on Thursday. Read More Workers did not exceed authorization when data stolen, says appeals court In a somewhat startling decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week ruled that several employees at an executive recruitment firm did not exceed their authorized access to their company's database when they logged into the system and stole confidential data from it. Read More Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit A federal court in California has ordered seven technology companies including Apple, Intel, Adobe and Google to face a private antitrust suit from five former employees, who alleged that the companies conspired to eliminate competition between them for skilled labor to suppress compensation and mobility of employees. Read More Laptops with AMD's 'Trinity' chips coming this quarter Consumer laptops and desktops with Advanced Micro Devices' new 'Trinity' processors will go on sale this quarter and do battle with Intel's next wave of Core processors, based on its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. Read More Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it. Read More AMD reports Q1 loss on GlobalFoundries charge Advanced Micro Devices reported a first-quarter net loss as costs related to GlobalFoundries and its SeaMicro acquisition weighed on its earnings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Prescription for Empowerment As healthcare payers continue to deal with the growth of big data, recent IDG research shows that they embrace and empower ad hoc analytic environments. Compliance continues to surface as a critical business driver for investments in data analytics, along with improved efficiency, reduced risk, reduced cost and improved security. Read now. FBI seizes anonymizing server in bomb threat probe The FBI is unlikely to uncover from a seized server the identity of someone emailing bomb threats to the University of Pittsburgh, according to groups who used the equipment. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple, the iPhone, and the future of travel I talked about Apple and its future place within the travel industry at a London conference this week. Organized by Eye For Travel the show clearly underlined the growing impact mobile technology is having on the industry. Here's what I said: Read More From CIO.com: IBM and HP Take Different Tacks to the New Cloud Tech giants IBM and HP recently made major cloud announcements, but the differences between the two are striking. CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle explains how HP's move was tactical and meshes with the recent leadership change, while IBM is playing the long game with artificially intelligent systems. Read More Apple in talks with iPad trademark challenger to try and settle dispute Apple and a Chinese company have started talks to try and resolve an ongoing legal dispute over the iPad trademark, according to a lawyer involved in the case. Read More In Australia, an ISP prevails in long-running copyright dispute A long-running lawsuit against Australia's second-largest ISP has ended in a defeat for the entertainment industry, which sought to hold the ISP liable for copyright infringement on its network. Read More Critics Pan Verizon's Proposed Spectrum Sell-off Resale of Verizon Wireless's 700 MHz licenses could sway regulators to sign off on carrier's proposed partnership with cable companies, but plenty of groups are crying foul. Read More Sony to launch 5GB online photo sharing service next week Sony said Friday it will launch its online photo sharing service, "PlayMemories Online," next week. Read More
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